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“All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.”

“I write what I would like to read – what I think other women would like to read. If what I write makes a woman in the Canadian mountains cry and she writes and tells me about it, especially if she says ‘I read it to Tom when he came in from work and he cried too,’ I feel I have succeeded.”

Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her seventy-eighth book, as cited in: James Charlton. The Writer's quotation book. 1985. p. 34

“Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ”

Kathleen Norris

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

Kathleen Norris

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.”

Kathleen Norris

“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

Kathleen Norris

Source: The Cloister Walk

Kathleen Norris Quotes

“If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.”

Kathleen Norris

“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening…. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.”

Kathleen Norris

“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”

Kathleen Norris

“Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.”

Kathleen Norris

Home http://books.google.com/books?id=XEVKAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Home+ought+to+be+our+clearing+house+the+place+from+which+we+go+forth+lessoned+and+disciplined+and+ready+for+life%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage (1928)

“There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. ”

Kathleen Norris

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